Mark C- you will get your wish when I finish the 35th Century story- I intend to put it out as a full-length novel, by tying the novella together.
Cheers!
Strong Horse Meet Progressives
9 years ago
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Research
Time-travelling trillionaires can't always be off having adventures, so I'm doing a little research on how idle moneyed folks used to live.
Especially slightly eccentric ones.
One thing I have learnt- if you want to write, it helps to read a LOT!
Sunday, February 13, 2011
The Hair Shirt
Three books for a total of 265,000 works to line edit.
It's going to take a month or two. I have finally learnt that slow is the only way.
I'm getting lots of minor punctuation and formatting screw-ups, thanks to upping the font size and enabling the mark-up. Typos or 'wrong words' that don't get picked up on the spell check are running at about one every eight pages. I'm doing a few minor wording changes too, as I sometimes slip into 'Yoda" mode when writing I am.
Those wondering why I don't pay somebody are probably not from New Zealand, where we do it ourselves-at least for the first couple of times ;-)
Friday, February 11, 2011
Line editing
Again.
This time I have the 'show formatting' setting on.
Painful, but I do want to get this right.
Eventualy
Another Review- thanks Mark C!
Review by: Mark C on Feb. 11, 2011 : 
I have read all three books now and felt it was time to come back and add a review for each. I'll start with the first book.
There is no doubt that the book could use the finer editorial touches the more poular authors receive, but for a self-published first book - well done! It takes awhile to get used to the NZ references (especially from us Canadians!), but using a Kindle allows the reader to look up unfamiliar words.
Yes, the storyline was basic, but it was also thoughtful and certainly very detailed - perhaps a little overboard even for us "A" personality types. I did very much enjoy the premise and the characters. The next two books add to the character's backgrounds and development.
I would have enjoyed some more adversarial aspects in this book, but you get some rewards if you move on to books 2 & 3. Keep up the good work Wayne, I'm looking forward to the 4th book!
I have read all three books now and felt it was time to come back and add a review for each. I'll start with the first book.
There is no doubt that the book could use the finer editorial touches the more poular authors receive, but for a self-published first book - well done! It takes awhile to get used to the NZ references (especially from us Canadians!), but using a Kindle allows the reader to look up unfamiliar words.
Yes, the storyline was basic, but it was also thoughtful and certainly very detailed - perhaps a little overboard even for us "A" personality types. I did very much enjoy the premise and the characters. The next two books add to the character's backgrounds and development.
I would have enjoyed some more adversarial aspects in this book, but you get some rewards if you move on to books 2 & 3. Keep up the good work Wayne, I'm looking forward to the 4th book!
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